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March 24, 2008

If it's Monday, it must be Mermaid

Time again for the Mermaid report. This may actually be the last Monday report... Heck, if I'd been more focused on pattern reading, it might actually have included pictures of a finished garment. But... I'm a scatter brain. I knit while watching TV, or listening to kids yammer, or riding in cars, or.... stuff. This means that sometimes, I do stupid things.

As you may recall, I was flush with my "success" on the first sleeve, and had taken it, the body, and the nascent sleeve two along for The Band Trip. I was deluding myself that I'd finish it while there.

Once my stomach settled, I began merrily knitting my way through the first half of sleeve two. I got through the increases, and realized that before I started the lovely contrast stripe, I had to knit five ridges without shaping.

??

Uh oh...

I think I may have missed that last time....

Yep. I had thought it looked odd, but I trusted what I thought were the instructions. I really must read more carefully! So, once I arrived at my aunt's house, I ripped all the way back through the stripe, and slid sleeve one onto the needle with sleeve two.

Last night, I finished both sleeves:

Shall we take a closer look at the correct sleeve top shaping?

That looks much more reasonable to me. I must have been really tired or distracted when I knit that first sleeve.

When it got too tired out to focus properly last night, I picked up Deep Breath for a bit instead of binding off the sleeves, but now I'm half way through binding off/seaming the first of the newly finished sleeves, and anticipate that I'll be sewing them onto the body before the evening is out!